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The vast majority of extant historiographical works in Georgia is preserved in the medieval corpus K`art`lis c`xovreba, literally “The Life of K`art`li/Georgia.” Although scholars have long recognized the composite nature of the collection, the exact number of component texts remains a matter of contention. In my Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography, I identified thirteen separate texts in K`art`lis c`xovreba‘s medieval section. The oldest surviving manuscript of the corpus is a copy of its medieval Armenian adaptation which was completed sometime between 1274 and 1311. The preferred critical edition remains S. Qauxch`ishvili’s K`art`lis c`xovreba, 2 vols. (T`bilisi, 1955 and 1959) despite the Georgian Academy of Science’s new edition: K`art`lis c`xovreba, Roin Metreveli ed. (T`bilisi, 2008), whose individual texts are available as PDFs through the links below.